Indian Bloggers Unite

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The Government of India is coming out with IT amendment Act 2008. According to its proposed provision 69A, it has identified the heads under which the news and views on internet through websites and blogs can be scrutinized and blocked.

One has to remember the July 2007 when in the name of the security of the country, many domains were just blocked whereas it was desired that only the offending and culpable sites should have been blocked.

Secondly, similar provisions had been proposed for the Television Media. However, Television Media has a strong lobbing power and they are kept of this preview of such broadcast. No doubt, their contents do not come under IT Act, but many of them run their parallel website. They are being exempted.

The website owners and Bloggers who present their information under the right of freedom of expression should join. The Big brothers in field of TV and Print Media also come to assistance of the the independent publishers of digital presentation on internet.

Or is it a move by Big Brothers to scuttle the activities of green horn news sites on the net.

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Refer to the following news item:

Govt gearing up to gag news websites - India - The Times of India

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